Author Archives: M. Eric Carr

Z80 End-Of-Life

Posted on 2024-04-29 by M. Eric Carr

Zilog has announced that the Z80 processor will go EOL. Almost fifty years is a pretty good run, for a CPU. Continue reading →

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Chicken Breeder Reactor

Posted on 2024-03-31 by M. Eric Carr

A Chicken Breeder Reactor can render a Minecraft world unplayable. Use with caution. Continue reading →

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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Posted on 2024-02-28 by M. Eric Carr

How do you train a computer to produce handwritten digits? You train it to tell real from fake ones, and then train it to fool itself, of course. Continue reading →

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“It’s 2024!”

Posted on 2024-01-24 by M. Eric Carr

In first grade, I attended a school musical play about The Future. It was called “2024.” What would 1980s-me think of the real year 2024? Continue reading →

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